Word: pickerel
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...touch of formality. "Mr. Harry Hopkins," said the Old Fisherman, "Meet Mr. Donald MacKenzie." The fishing got even better: "You certainly know the holes for these beauties," he told Guide MacKenzie. All in all, around 100 bass were taken (biggest: 4 lb. 2 oz.), five pike and pickerel. The Old Fisherman got most of them. Some others who wet a hook: Admiral William D. Leahy, Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, Major General Edwin M. Watson, Rear Admiral Ross McIntyre, James F. Byrnes...
...wealth of Carmer's authentic, affectionately painted regional period detail. He makes such dusty props as oiled-paper windows, Conestoga wagons and Liberty Poles as fresh as a glimpse at the youth of one's greatgrandparents; makes a succulent novelty of such frontier diet as pickerel, wild turkey, the bright yellow Indian corn...
...biggest merger in U.S. aviation history last week got off to a fast start. Not a minnow, but a pickerel of an industry began to swallow a whale. Vultee Aircraft, Inc. announced that it would buy the 440,000 shares of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. common stock now held or controlled by Consolidated's president, Major Reuben Fleet (TIME, Nov. 17). The price: $10,945,000, equal to $24.88 a share and less than 50? below the stock's alltime high. After formal contract signing in Consolidated's huge San Diego plant, Vultee's President Richard...
Chinese Puzzle. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., a fisherman swore that he caught a pickerel, opened it, found a bass, opened it, found a live perch...
...Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology and various other authorities back up TIME'S translation of the Ojibway word ogontz (variants: ogans, ogah) as "pickerel'"' or "walleyed pike." Despite its name, this is a very respectable fish...